Tablet BM 31969

NaBuCCo ID 2115
Museum No. BM 31969
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Receipt
Archive
Period NB
Year BCE None
Editio princeps Wunsch 1993 210
Paraphrase Receipt for silver. Purchase price. Payment to sellers’ creditor.
fA1, A2 and A3 sold their slave (D) to B for 1 m 10 shekels of silver, their exact price (šīm harī). They receive only part of the purchase price because the other part is used to pay off one of their debts. Accordingly, C, the creditor, receives (mahāru) a broken amount of shekels in payment for his claim (kum rašûtu) against the sellers. A2 and A3 receive (mahāru) x+9 shekels; and fA1 and …. [broken off] receive (eṭēru) the rest of the purchase price (amount is broken) from  the buyer. Names of 2 witnesses and the scribe.
 
fA1 = fHibuṣu/Nabû-kāṣir//Malāhu; A2 = Nabû-apla-iddin; A3 = Rēmūt-Bēl/Nabû-mušētiq-uddê//Damqa; B = Itti-Marduk-balāṭu/Nabû-ahhē-iddin//Egibi; C = Iddin-Marduk/Iqīšāya//Nūr-Sîn; D = Ina-ṣilli-Bēl, slave of sellers.
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Nbn. yy-I-dd